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What questions does preconception counselling help answer?
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The pre pregnancy consultation helps you, first of all, to plan your pregnancy. There are so many conditions where you will come across to know that whether this will make me to get pregnant, and if I get pregnant, what effect it has on the pregnancy and the baby. And I can give you an example. For example, if you have diabetes, assuming that you are diabetic, which you should not be, but you would like to know how important having a good glucose control before the pregnancy. A lack of having a proper glucose control, what effect it has on the pregnancy and the baby. Because if you have inadequate control, then you will have a risk of miscarriage and having stillbirth, et cetera. And obviously, you would like to avoid those situations. So, as a consultant, I can help you to guide you and give you advice about your lifestyle and how to control your sugar and what are the things you should be doing before you get pregnant, like weight management, lifestyle advice, folic acid, et cetera. So probably give you a little more guidance to help you out so that you can have a healthy pregnancy looking forward to.

